Poet Quotes · Page 13

“A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman. ”

— Wallace Stevens

A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read.

— Hartley Coleridge

I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.

— Anonymous

“Today is half of Yesterday and Tomorrow, Choose Today to make Tomorrow”

— Yando Wanii Nimbo

“Every poet creates their own universe that looks more beautiful than reality.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Being a poet doesn't automatically emasculate you, Claudia.”

— Oliver Bowden

Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.

— Caroline Norton

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.

— Robert Hass

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

— Henry David Thoreau

He was a great poet" They lamented. No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he…

— Lloyd Alexander

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

— Norman MacCaig

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

— Tanya Saracho

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

— Billy Collins

Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.

— Ho Chi Minh

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

— Honore de Balzac

Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they…

— Plato

The world is full of people who have lost faith: politicians who have lost faith in politics, social workers who have lost…

— P. D. James

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways…

— Andrew Motion

There is no moral to my song, I praise no right, I blame no wrong; I tell of things that I have…

— Thomas MacDonagh

'A Death in the Gunj' is set in 1979 and we had to mute a joke that referred to Indira Gandhi. The…

— Konkona Sen Sharma

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance…

— Lafcadio Hearn

I don’t worry anymore about writing. There are times that I go through dry periods. I never go through a block. I’m…

— Dorianne Laux

“The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

— Thornton Wilder

A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“it's so easy to be a poet and so hard to be a man.”

— Charles Bukowski

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

— Orson Welles

Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

— John Quincy Adams

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

— Andre Gide

When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.

— Melvin B. Tolson

All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.

— Tom Hodgkinson

language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

— Erica Jong

“Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries.”

— César Vallejo

I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“We loved our father for the poet he'd become.”

— Frederick Reiken

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.

— Christopher Pearse Cranch

We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

“A poet is somebody who has written a poem.”

— Wallace Stegner